I’m trying to copy another DVD for Claudia, and again I’m running into problems because I’m getting input/output errors while reading the files. I remembered a similar incident and tried to run apropos(1) with some query terms, trying to find the tool that I had used at the time to recover files from defect media. No luck. When I started to search my blog, however, I quickly found what I was looking for on 2005-06-19 Software. How cool is that? *recoverdm* is what I was looking for.
Update: Turns out that it didn’t help. mkisofs refused to make a DVD image based on the files. And when trying k3b to copy DVDs, it aborted at the very end when trying to read the original disk. I showed Claudia how to view the .vob files using the software players we have.
This sucks.
But there’s more: I absolutely hate it when I am about to leave the house and decide to load some new MP3 on my player, switch on the SlackWare box, try to mount my player, and keep getting error messages about the player being not being a valid block device, the super-block being corrupt, and I don’t know what else.
What’s going on? This used to work! At least I think it used to work...
Has Apple borked the filesystem of my MP3 player? Is my cable broken?
I hate this.
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